A GREEN bus arrived in Slough on Wednesday, spreading awareness of the importance of screening for bowel cancer.

A team from Macmillan Cancer Support were stationed in the High Street on Wednesday to offer advice and support to passers by.

Whitney Blunt, Macmillan's Slough screening coordinator, said: "At the moment the number of people doing their screenings in Slough is low, which is why it's so important for us to be here to try and get the message out.

"If you don't catch cancer early it can be so much worse."

The screening test for Bowel cancer is sent out by the NHS free of charge by post to everyone aged between 60 and 69 every two years.

Miss Blunt is concerned that this means people often do not complete the screening as they do not know what to do.

She said: "No one has talked to them about it, they haven't had a conversation, they just get it through the door.

"It's almost more important for people who have had no symptoms to do the screening. We are here to say you need to do it, just because you have no symptoms doesn't mean you don't need to."